An Etsy Thanksgiving !!

Woah Thanksgiving!

Slow Down!

I cannot believe it is already that time of the year.

But I am extremely happy that it is!

I love thanksgiving, the trees turing colors, the time with family, being at the lake, 

of course the yummy food..but thats a given right?

Everything about this season is so fun for me.

I recently purchased some cute decorations off Etsy and I cannot wait to share them!

They have been set up in our little apartment, but will be making the big trip to the lake to add some holiday cheer!

All of the purchases I plan on packing away to use for years to come!

Fall Banner by makentake

Harvest letters by allysatticcrafts

Turkey Day sign by yourethatgirldesigns

Give Thanks Pumpkin by kellykrockerkreates

I cannot wait to search for Christmas decorations on Etsy!

Hope yall have an absolutely fabulous Thanksgiving! 

Oh and if you need help with all that cooking, Ree Drumond from The Pioneer Woman was recently on Throwdown with Bobby Flay! It was awesome!! Be sure to catch it next time its on, it was a Thanksgiving dinner throwdown and there were some ama-za-zing recipes!

Mark 1-6

I went to a small Christian School for 7th-10th grade. 

 I had a math teacher, who was also the assistant coach, in the 7th and 8th grade.  

He is one of the nicest people I know.  His son was in my grade and we became friends in the class.  

His son was always talking to me in class, moving my desk up and back during class and i was just annoyed with him.  But when I left school in the 11th grade to go to public school, he is one of the people I miss the most.  

I was not on a sports team but all of my friends were so I would be at most games and became the #1 fan.  Mr. H would always bring me a cookie from a bakery down the street when he would go to the games to coach.  He said that I stood out in his mind because I reminded him of his cousin.  

He drank mountain dew like nobody's business and i will always remember the little math tricks he taught us in his class.

I recently found him again through the powers of Facebook and each day he posts an explanation to different passages in the bible.  

The past couple of days he has been doing the first few chapters of Mark and I wanted to repost them here because the words have touched my heart.

Charlie and I are going through a difficult change, career wise.  We are just trying to seek God's purpose in our lives and it is getting very hard to accept what we feel he is telling us to do. 

 It is hard to change what you always thought your life would be.  

Its hard to accept when something is not right but you both want it to be right so badly.

 It is time to drop everything around us and listen to God's plan and follow what we feel in our hearts to be the right path no matter how difficult the consequences may be. 

 These words made me understand our decisions better.

Mark 1-2 We messed up when we stopped calling people to become followers and started calling them to become leaders. Leaders aren't born: they rise up from those who have accepted the responsibility of following upon themselves. When we stopped calling followers, we interfered in HIs process of raising leaders. Follow, first.

Mark 3-4 The day I realized that God knew more about my life than I did, my life changed. I no longer saw God as a law giver but as a Father whose counsel and direction would help me to achieve those things I could never achieve on my own. That day, I stopped looking for a reason not to listen to Him and started to find ways to listen more closely.

Mark 5-6 When we change, the hardest place for that change to be accepted is with the people who love us most. If we change for the good, they find it hard to get past our mistakes. If we change for the better, they are the easiest to fool.

I am so thankful he posted these.  Its amazing that what you really need to hear comes in the most random forms!  

Please keep Charlie and I in your prayers as we make our most difficult decision thus far.  

Blog Award!!

Whoo Hoo!

So excited about this Blog Award!

Thanks so much Kit and LivKit!!!!

I have loved reading both of these blogs!

To accept the Versatile Blogger Award the rules are:

{1}: Thank and link back to who gave you the award.

{2}: Share 7 things about yourself.

{3}: Pass it along to 7 blogs you've recently discovered and enjoy!

{4}: Leave the recipients a note, telling them about the award.

So here we go! 7 things about me...hmm lets see if we can do this!

1): I am like 100% obsessed with Kelly Clarkson.  I love her, she loves me ;) we are practically best friends. I mean I have met her twice and she did smiled in my direction at a concert.

2): I LOVE Sunkist.  Even though it is one of the worst drinks for you in the entire world.  And the fact that it is galactic, glowing orange probs doesn't help.

3): This is getting hard....  I have inherited a kitty cat.  My sister got him for her apartment but she can't have it in her apartment...so auntie jess is now the proud adoptive parent of her nephew kitty. Now I am not a huge fan of cats but Saw Saw is growing on me.. ;)

4.) I Love, Love, Love Ree Drumond.  She is amazing.  She is going to make my pants stop fitting, but I  will LOVE the process.  I have her cookbook on display in my kitchen and any time i get a hankering to whip up something in the Kitchen The Pioneer Woman is the first place I turn!

5): YouTube rules my life.  I secretly wish I could be a YouTube vlogger but i really don't think my life is interesting enough.  I want to be the shaytards when I have a family!  They are adorable!  I also watch all these makeup videos and.... this is embarassing...when I put on my makeup in the morning I pretend I am making a video on YouTube and describe all of the things I am doing.  Charlie has heard me in the bathroom before and come in laughing hysterically wondering what I am doing....

6): I am missing my boo! ;)

7): If I could have any talent it would be singing.  I cannot sing worth a lick, but if i could, girls, I'd belt out a solo in the drop of a hat.

whew that was kinda tough...

now its my turn to tag!

I tag:
1):

2):
Southern Girly Diva


3):

4):
Simply Extravagant

5):
Kels

6): 

7):
Oh, the Places We'll Go

A Wee Bit of Me Wednesday!

Just found this on my leigh ashley and I decided to join!

{one} Have you ever seen a ghost?

When I was like 12, me and my friend Lauren were sleeping on a hide-a-bed couch and I woke up and saw a figure of something glowing.  Looking back it was probably a dream or the dark playing with my eyes.  But i freaked out and ran to my moms room.  Lauren saw me and followed me into mom's room and when she got in the door way both me and my mom screamed sooo loud!!!

{two} When was the last time you dressed up for Halloween?

Last year, Charlie and I decided last minute to go to a Halloween party for his fraternity.  We both pulled what we had and I ended up being Audrey Hepburn and he was a Canadian Hunter.... It was interesting..

{three} What's your favorite candy?

M&M's and KitKat but honestly, I will eat any candy you hand me except for Almond Joy....

{four} Did you have a favorite Halloween Costume growing up?

YES! I was Cruella DeVille for Halloween when I was younger.  My neighbor made a cape out of dalmation fabric, a black dress with sequins and i even glued fake red finger nails to the outside of my snazzy red gloves! Of course my trick or treat bag matched my outfit with the same dalmation fabric an a red silk trim! haha I was stylin' My sister was the Mask!  We went to Disney World for Halloween that year and it was also my favorite Halloween I have ever had!

{five} Did you carve pumpkins this year?

no...we painted pumpkins though!

{six} What's your favorite scary movie?

Definitely What Lies Beneath.  I remember watching that in high school with 3 of my best girlfriends.  We spent the night at my friend Margaret's house and scared ourselves silly.  Later a family moved into our neighborhood and Lauren and I called the mom Mary Fewer because she was creepy and weirded us out! 

{seven} Haunted Houses or Corn Mazes?

Well i have never done a corn maze before.  But i think I would like it.  I have been to a few haunted houses.  I screamed the whole way thru both of them, walking with my eyes closed and clinging to Charlie for dear life.  They were horrible.  The Haunted Mansion at Disney is my kind of Haunted House!

{eight} are you superstitious?

nope..

{nine} Have you ever owned a black cat?

nope...

{ten} what are your plans for this Halloween?

I will be handing out candy at my parents house and watching movies! Hopefully making some kind of fun Halloween treat!

Verse I needed to hear..

"I'll never forget the trouble, the utter lostness,

the taste of ashes, the poison I've swallowed.

I remember it all -- oh, how well I remember --

the feeling of hitting the bottom.

But there's one other thing I remember,

and remembering, I keep a grip on hope:

God's loyal love couldn't have run out,

His merciful love couldn't have dried up.

They're created new every morning.

How great Your faithfulness!

I'm sticking with God (I say it over and over).

He's all I've got left.

God proves to be good to the man who passionately waits,

to the woman who diligently seeks.

It's a good thing to quietly hope,

quietly hope for help from God.

It's a good thing when you're young

to stick it out through the hard times.

When life is heavy and hard to take,

go off by yourself.  Enter the silence.

Bow in prayer.  Don't ask questions:

Wait for hope to appear.

Don't run from trouble.  Take it full-face.

The "worst" is never the worst."

-lamentations 3: 19-30

the message

Found this when reading through my blog subscriptions and had to copy.

Thanks a lovely life for inspiring me today.

Shaytards!!!

I was feeling sad and sorry for myself and all of the things that put you in just a down right bad mood.

Until shaytards came on my youtube homepage.

As soon as i saw shay, malachi and the cute chillins the sad lump in my throat was replaced by a huge laugh and now i feel about a TRILLION times better!

Its amazing what a cute little family will do for the soul!

 along with a little:

and Taylor Swift's new album while the next shaytard video loads makes for a fabulous night for me and the kitty!

It's Fall Ya'll!!

First off I got a call from Charlie last night!!!

It was a one minute call and he sounded good, it was hard to hear him but he said he was doing good, it wasn't scary and that he wouldn't be able to call back for a while.  I wrote him a letter today and it will be in the mail tomorrow.  He said they probably wouldn't get mail until next week but it will be there for him when they have the first mail call!

 I miss him so much!!!

(photo by Lynn Daly Photography)

The weekend before Charlie left we went with his family to a fall festival.

We decorated pumpkins and made scarecrows that we got to bring home.

Charlie made the heart one and it has our initials on each side and I made the anchor!

So cute!

It was so much fun!

We also saw our second grade teacher.

It was so good to see her and she was so excited to see that Charlie and I had gotten married and it all started in her second grade class.

It really got me into the spirit of fall and am loving it!

Even though we have only had a couple sweater days here, signs of fall are slowly creeping out.

The leaves are changing and scarecrows are in full force!

I bought some mums for our porch yesterday and I just love the way it brightens up the area.

I also love the fashion fall brings.

The tall boots, sweaters, leggings....I love all of it!

I bought these boots on Rue La La a couple of days ago and I cannot wait till they come in!

They are the Jack Rogers Greenwitch.

I got them at 50% on Rue La La!

Whoo Hoo! I love a good deal!

Today my mom, charlie's mom and I went and saw You Again.

It was really cute and funny!

I just love a good movie on a rainy day!

I'm off to bed to dream about cooler weather and my hubs!

Tomorrow its off to a fun day of work and to see this sweet girl: